Sunday, October 20, 2013

USA Scriptchat Topic: You have scripts on your laptops. What do you do while you wait to sell them? Writers write.How far are you willing to go away from scripts to get your stories out there?Hollywood Screenwriting Directory GIVEAWAY

Tonight we set off to explore how much fact is really needed in a fictional story. Do we ignore all that we believe to be a fact for the sake of the story?
When it comes to a Historical drama, how much license do writers have to alternate the sequence of events in order to tell a stronger more powerful version?

With over 2,500 listings for Industry insiders from studios to independent financiers, the Hollywood Screenwriting Directory is the specialized resource you need for discovering where and how to sell your screenplay. Plus, it includes how-to instructions on script format, query letters, treatments, and log lines, so you can produce a professional submission. Come to one of the next five scriptchat sessions to get a chance to win a copy of your own! Here's our schedule for upcoming chat topics. All USA chats are at 5pm PST on Sundays.Join us!

Sunday, October 6, 2013

#Scriptchat TOPIC: Story development and The Enneagram with guests Jeff Lyons and Jenna Avery.Jeff Lyons @storygeeks and Jenna Avery @jennaavery discuss story development, story structure and characters using The Enneagram. Lots of links to further your learning within the transcript, so bookmark them for your next project or rewriting your current one. Enjoy! @jeannevbYou can also read the transcript on the Storify site.

Tonight Jeanne V Bowerman talked about the process of adapting a novel to screen. The transcript is full of little gems and great tips from securing the rights to adapting the screenplay. Put your feet up and enjoy the read.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Have you ever thought of adapting a book to screen? Not sure where or how to begin?

Euro #Scriptchat is delighted to be joined by our very own Jeanne V Bowerman as we chat about Adapting a Novel to Screen.

Jeanne is the President of Impasse Productions and the Editor and Online Community Manager ofScript Magazine, with a weekly column entitledBalls of Steelwhere she chronicles her fearless journey as a screenwriter as well as shares stories of other writers in the trenches. Beyond screenwriting, she writes teaches screenwriting webinars for The Writers Store.A graduate of Cornell University, she’s written several spec scripts, including an Expo Screenplay Competition finalist script - the adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book,Slavery by Another Name,with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. The book — an exposé of how slavery didn’t end with the Civil War but was resurrected by white supremacists, businessmen and plantation owners and preserved for seven decades after the Emancipation Proclamation — has already dramatically revised conventional American history. It was a New York Times Best Seller, and has been reprinted more than a dozen times. A documentary based on the book appeared on PBS in 2012.

Her short film, Impasse, is in post production.Website: Ramblings of a Recovered Insecureaholicjeannevb.com